Episode 129 Presenting Fields Episode 1: Seeds and Time Travel
Aired: Monday, March 1st 2021
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HOSTED BY Caity Moseman Wadler Kat Johnson
On this episode of HRN Happy Hour we re thrilled to present the first episode of one of HRN s newest shows:
Fields. Fields brings you the stories of people who are working in urban agriculture for money, for fun, to feed the hungry, and for entirely other reasons. In each episode, hosts Melissa Metrick and Wythe Marschall delve into different foods grown in cities. Moreover, we investigate the whys behind getting up in the morning and working as a farmer in the shadow of skyscrapers. You don’t need to be a farmer to enjoy this podcast, or even a foodie! With their expert guests, Melissa and Wythe break down the realities and possible futures of urban farming to their elements.
Thirteen county districts will see their funds cut by at least 10% if Murphy s budget passes.
The vast majority of Sussex County districts have consistently seen funding cuts since Murphy signed legislation in July 2018 that reformed how state aid is distributed. The exception has been Newton, which has seen increases for four consecutive years. Newton schools Superintendent Ken Greene has the increases come after years of being underfunded.
Greene said his district s 2021-22 aid is a welcome respite from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that has complicated students learning. Newton has long been a champion of the state s current school funding formula, he said, and the increase will be beneficial for the district as it prepares for a normal school year in the fall.
Palestinian Seeds Come to America, Stories and Artwork Included Feb 20, 2021 Vivien Sansour is bringing yakteen to the United States. Photography by Samar Hazboun
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Vivien Sansour founded the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library in the West Bank in 2014 as a way to both preserve Palestinian culture at home and to share it with the world. More than a half-decade later, those efforts and her seeds have found their way into the American marketplace, specifically in the form of the Hudson Valley Seed Co. seed catalogue. The New York-based company is selling seeds for Sansour’s
yakteen gourd, which it believes marks the first time that a Palestinian heirloom variety has been available commercially in the United States.
Season 1 Episode 1 Seeds and Time Travel
Aired: Wednesday, January 6th 2021
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Fields and find out! In our first story, Melissa and Wythe talk to plant-focused artists Ellie Irons and Anne Percoco of the Next Epoch Seed Library and to Ken Greene, expert seed breeder and seed librarian. We explore how different seeds travel across time and space sometimes becoming “invasive” “weeds,” and sometimes disappearing from human cultivation. Anne and Ellie are working to help all of us, especially those of us in big cities, rethink our relationships to the plants traveling all around us, to our neglected environments, to our politicized borders, and to the world’s rapidly changing climate. Ken is working with indigenous leaders to grow, save, and return without keeping sacred seeds. We talk about organic seeds, the ethics of growing, and farming while queer. We learned so much from our first g